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Since upgrading to Ubuntu 22.04 the 'Set Wallpaper' function does not change the desktop wallpaper. It downloads the wallpaper but doesn't actually change it, even if I select older downloaded wallpapers. What I have been doing to get around the issue is clicking on the 'Downloaded wallpaper' button, the clicking the folder open button, then right clicking the jpg file and choosing 'Set as wallpaper' from the pop-up menu.

"set as wallpaper" doesn't work on Ubuntu 20.04.
Suggestion: auto set "wallpaper of the day" will be a nice feature.

• enabled snap support, and ran other snap apps successfully.
• install Bingwall and wonderwall, but both give following error

$ snap run wonderwall                                                                                              
Gtk-Message: 13:30:03.428: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 13:30:03.443: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Qt: Session management error: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported
QApplication: invalid style override passed, ignoring it.
Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object weight does not accept value [40 210)
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  wonderwall

Steps to Reproduce:

• After checking the 'Show Image Detail On Wallpaper' in Settings
• Click on any one of the wallpapers and they will not be downloaded.
• Uncheck the 'Show Image Detail On Wallpaper' in Settings
• Wallpapers should now be downloaded

Can somebody please confirm, Thanks!

When I click on the Open Download Folder or go to Application Settings and then click on Open Downloads nothing happens.

It was working as expected opening the download location, but now it has stopped working. Not sure if this should happen.

BingWall Version: 2.0
OS: Ubuntu 20.04.4

Thanks for the great application, i would like to request a feature to update the desktop daily.

Currently there is an option to update the wallpaper on system startup. But this doesn't work if you never shut down your pc. Therefore it would be awesome to have a feature to automatically update the wallpaper on a certain moment of the day.

After installing the BingWal the Auto-Hide feature of the Dock doesn't work.
Tried disablign and reenabling the BingWall, and tried disabling and reenabling the Auto-hide of AutoDock on appearance and neither were working.

I use BingWall on my laptop with a 1080p display. Often, but not always, I plug this laptop into a 4K external monitor and disable the laptop display. If my external monitor isn't connected when BingWall refreshes, it'll scale the image down to 1080p and set my wallpaper to the scaled image. This doesn't look great when I later connect the 4K external monitor as the 1080p image then looks blurry.

It would be great if BingWall did not scale the downloaded image to match the resolution of the display, but instead set the wallpaper to the original resolution image leaving the desktop environment to handle scaling. This would work better in environments where the monitor layouts change.

Unluckily this app does not work with Lubuntu.

Since I know Lubuntu is very niche and "recently" switched to LXQT, I could try to collaborate with a PR, if you point me in the right direction :)

Dear developer of peapix API

I use peapix API for my app and i am very happy with it.
However I noticed that no copyright string is available in the country specific feed of peapix API ( e.g - https://peapix.com/bing/feed?country=us ).
However, in the endpoint feed, without a country parameter, the copyright string is available ( https://peapix.com/bing/feed ).
Is there a way that a copyright string can be retrieved in the country-specific feed?
So that I can inform the users of my app about the copyright of a image.

Best regards.
pagaco-swita

When I select a wallpaper and click "set as wallpaper" the UI is unresponsive for a long period of time.
Even after the image is downloaded and set, the UI is still unresponsive for 15 seconds afterwards.

There is a typo in the string for the Bing wall settings in settings.ui

Set wallpaper of the day on Syatem StartUp

upgraded to ubuntu 22.04, using settings --> appearance --> dark style, BingWall does not set wallpaper.
I believe the issue is in gsettings picture-uri, for dark theme it should be gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri-dark

using gsetting this can be achieved :

gsettings set org.mate.background picture-filename fileurl

You expected it, you were looking for it, here it is, the issue related to the proxy !

It seems that by default the HTTP call doesn't respect env variable HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bing-wall

Here is the link for AUR package. You can add that in readme. Now arch linux users can install via AUR. :)

Hi Keshav,

First, thank you for making Bing Wall available and for supporting FOSS!

I have a 4K monitor, and I notice that on my Windows VMs, the images downloaded by Bing Desktop are 4K resolution.

Is that something that you can also make available through Bing Wall?

Thanks and Regards!

When building from source, the binary is named bing-wall, but the desktop file wants to execute bingwall.

Hi,

Thanks for considering my changes.

I updated today BingWall from snap in Ubuntu 22.04.
Unfortunately, changing images still don't work when Dark Scheme is chosen.

When I clone your repo and build it in qtcreator, it works.

From 'git log' I have:

and if I understand, my changes should be in the snap build.

Have any idea what is the difference between my local build and snap package?

Hi

BingWall is not working behind proxy.

These env vars exist, other apps working without problems:
http_proxy
https_proxy
HTTP_PROXY
HTTPS_PROXY

I'm on Ubuntu 22.04

Good afternoon,

not fitting well 1920 x1200 (16:10) resolution.
The image title description is cut in the right corner.

plsma desktop integration missing.

implement something like this :
https://github.com/pashazz/ksetwallpaper/blob/master/ksetwallpaper.py

Missing from settings, And when I try launching from the command line, this happens:

bing-wall --set Qt: Session management error: Could not open network socket propsReply "An AppArmor policy prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient; type=\"method_call\", sender=\":1.790\" (uid=1000 pid=29010 comm=\"bing-wall --set \" label=\"snap.bing-wall.bing-wall (enforce)\") interface=\"org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties\" member=\"GetAll\" error name=\"(unset)\" requested_reply=\"0\" destination=\"org.freedesktop.NetworkManager\" (uid=0 pid=682 comm=\"/usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon \" label=\"unconfined\")"

For some reason BingWall stopped working on Zorin OS 16. It was setting wallpaper at startup once but since then I can't even manually set the wallpaper from the application. Is there anything I can do to make is work again?

In the settings allow to change the folder where the wallpapers are downloaded.

Image detail in bottom right screen corner cut off on Ubuntu 22.04 with 1280 x 800 (16:10) screen res.
Maybe move image detail default location to center or add app image scaling option to shrink image to fit screen?
Great App dev!
TIA!
j8zf1

xfce desktop wallpaper support.

something similar suggested in this post.
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/changing-desktop-wallpaper-with-terminal-command-in-xfce/58772

On Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 I get the follwing errors:
Gtk-Message: 09:00:59.352: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" Gtk-Message: 09:00:59.354: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" Qt: Session management error: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported QApplication: invalid style override passed, ignoring it. propsReply "An AppArmor policy prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient; type=\"method_call\", sender=\":1.77\" (uid=1000 pid=2433 comm=\"bing-wall --set \" label=\"snap.bing-wall.bing-wall (enforce)\") interface=\"org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties\" member=\"GetAll\" error name=\"(unset)\" requested_reply=\"0\" destination=\"org.freedesktop.NetworkManager\" (uid=0 pid=725 comm=\"/usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon \" label=\"unconfined\")" nmReply "An AppArmor policy prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient; type=\"method_call\", sender=\":1.77\" (uid=1000 pid=2433 comm=\"bing-wall --set \" label=\"snap.bing-wall.bing-wall (enforce)\") interface=\"org.freedesktop.NetworkManager\" member=\"GetDevices\" error name=\"(unset)\" requested_reply=\"0\" destination=\"org.freedesktop.NetworkManager\" (uid=0 pid=725 comm=\"/usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon \" label=\"unconfined\")" "Object path cannot be empty"

It's too easy to accidentally click Delete Wallpaper instead of Set Wallpaper and doing so permanently deletes the wallpaper instead of sending it to the waste bin. Deleting a wallpaper should be more difficult or even removed altogether as this can be done from the file-system interface anyway.

I tried the snap version 2.4 (Runtime 5.15.3) on OpenSUSE Leap 15.5 with KDE desktop (x86_64) and two monitors.

If I click on "Set as Wallpaper" in the GUI or if I call bing-wall --set in the terminal, it simply does nothing. No error message, no wallpaper change.

Hi!

First of all thank you for your great work, I love your application!

If you are still willing to develop from this stage, I would propose the following enhancement:

It would be great if the title of the picture could also optionally appear on the wallpaper.

I believe it could be reasonably extracted because it appears to always be in the same div container:
<div class="panel-overlay" style="position: absolute; z-index: 999; width: 938px; height: 24px; top: 0px; left: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; color: white; font-size: 1em;"><p>[20200406] - 'Cherry blossoms and Himeji Castle in Himeji, Japan (© Tororo/Getty Images)(Bing United States)'</p></div>

Delete old wallpapers on System Startup checkbox in Application Settings, maybe also set by default to keep only current and not some(5?) more...

I using command
bing-wall --set
and i found a message

For Linux Mint users, Flathub is the alternative to the Snap store.
https://github.com/flathub/flathub/wiki/App-Submission

Would you please consider publishing this app there as well?

On some Linux distros snap packages are giving FontConfig warnings that are not lettings the app run.

This is a known issue
The solution that worked for many is removing the system fontconfig cache and regenerate it with the following set of commands:
sudo rm /var/cache/fontconfig/*
rm ~/.cache/fontconfig/*
fc-cache -r

I know 23.10 is still beta but it't almost done.

When doing bing-wall --set you get the following:

Qt: Session management error: Could not open network socket
propsReply "An AppArmor policy prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient; type="method_call", sender=":1.192" (uid=1000 pid=15717 comm="/snap/bing-wall/26/usr/bin/bing-wall --set" label="snap.bing-wall.bing-wall (enforce)") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" (uid=0 pid=940 comm="/usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon" label="unconfined")"
nmReply "An AppArmor policy prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient; type="method_call", sender=":1.192" (uid=1000 pid=15717 comm="/snap/bing-wall/26/usr/bin/bing-wall --set" label="snap.bing-wall.bing-wall (enforce)") interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" member="GetDevices" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" (uid=0 pid=940 comm="/usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon" label="unconfined")"
"Object path cannot be empty"